MASTERS Event | Tuesday 18th March

Masters Event Tomorrow!!! 
Hello Year 3

Thinking of doing a Masters next year?

Richard Sorger is now Acting Program Leader for the Fashion MA

AND
Tomorrows event can tell you all about a new scholarship that will pay 50% of your fees, as well as bursaries to help with your living costs.

When- Tuesday 19th March 4.30-6.30

Where- G409

Attend- Book online unihub.mdx.ac.uk/masters-art

Come along to find out more about finance as well as talk to current MA students and tutors!

Yr 2 HAD Lecture - February 21st 2013

Message for year two FSH 2936, on work experience placements from Pam Simpson:

Hi all, the first lecture of the next part of the module starts soon, just reminding you, Thursday 21st February, usual time and place 9.30am in the Hatchcroft building, followed by the usual seminars.
Staffing has slightly altered, Ken and I remain as usual, but the new appointment has started, Cheryl Roberts, she joins the team.
Cheryl Roberts is kicking off the series of lectures with a 'Fashion and Film' lecture, her research expertise is in this area. You will love her, she is a Fashion historian.
I will post the reading for the seminar, early next week.
Very best wishes, hope the placements went well!
I look forward to hearing about them,
Pam, x.
Module leader FSH 2936.

YR1 | links found during group work

WIFE is visceral, live, contemporary, dance, interacting with original, projected, animations and music. She is the creation of Nina McNeely, Kristen Leahy, and Jasmine Albuquerque. Her three members are dancers, choreographers, teachers, editors, animators, and performers thriving in the underbelly of L.A subculture. She finds inspiration from myth, folklore, archetypes, and the subtleties of everyday human behavior. Influences include Jim Henson, Chris Cunningham, Akira Kurosawa, Kathy Rose, Wendy Carlos, Yayoi Kusama, Planningtorock, Aleister Crowley, her friends, and you. 

WIFE can only be seen in the dark. 

WIFE works well with others. 

WIFE likes to play. Visually, 

WIFE is bold. Physically, 

WIFE is daring. Dreams are her driving force. She is metamorphosis.

All concepts and choreography created by WIFE

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LINK: SHOWstudio | The Fashion Body

 

 SHOWstudio's 2009-10 fashion film and essay season, The Fashion Body sought to explore and celebrate the human body through a unique combination of fashion and moving image. Over thirty fashion creatives were challenged to contribute a personal and distinctive fashion film to the season, each focusing on a different area of the human body and using fashion items to adorn it.

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 LINK: SHOWstudio | Lady GAGA Full interview

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LINKS: JOSH GREET

& JOSH GREET TUMBLR

BODYMAP

 

 

 

 BodyMap | LINK: Stevie Stewart & David Holah

Collaboration | LINK: The Michael Clark Company

From DAZED Digital | Q&A: Iris Van Herpen

Follow LINK | Interview feature taken from the February Issue of Dazed & Confused:

With collections that spring from complex corners of medicine, biology and the digital world, Iris van Herpen is one of fashion’s most inquisitive minds. Since graduating from the ArtEZ institute in Arnhem in 2006 and founding her label in 2007, the Dutch designer has been exploring her advanced ideas with the help of scientists, architects and 3D printing. Her collections, shown during haute couture, fuse centuries-old artisan skills with techniques that have more in common with science fiction.
Crafted with equal measures of fragility and armour-like strength, van Herpen’s sculptural pieces resemble intricate oversized fossil shapes or skeletal structures that have been transferred into a futuristic virtual gaming world. And now, following last year’s solo exhibition at the Groninger Museum in the Netherlands and several custom-made dresses for Björk, van Herpen is to add ready-to-wear to her offerings.

How are you approaching your move into ready-to-wear?It’s really an extension of couture, translated into pieces for daily wear. I’m taking elements from previous collaborations. It’s more about functionality and durability, and I’m doing a lot of research into materials that will remain beautiful. I want to try to get the womenswear almost as timeless as the couture. I like couture’s idea of buying something you can wear for years rather than a season.

What does couture mean to you?
Couture is the laboratory where I can explore new ways of working, new techniques and new materials. I try to collaborate with people from different disciplines to move things forward. There are no limitations in the amount of hours you spend on couture or the research you do, and when I collaborate with scientists the processes can take a year or even longer. And for couture that’s possible.

If you hadn’t become a designer, do you think you would have been a scientist?Ha! Well, I don’t think I have the knowledge for it. Some of the people I work with are true geniuses and I’m not. But I certainly have the love and curiosity for it. Growing up, I did classical ballet and I always thought that was going to be my career. But in high school it all changed and I wanted to study at the art academy. If I look back, I know I needed the materiality. Dance would be too abstract. You can create something but it’s gone once you stop dancing. That’s what I like about my collections – they start their own life after I’ve created them.

The starting points for your collections tend to be quite abstract, though, like neurological conditions and electromagnetic rays.
I think the things in life that aren’t visible or totally clear are the most interesting. There are so many things around us that we use and know, but that we’re also not really aware of. Those are the nicest things to work on because I can at least try to make them visible with my imagination. I can’t work from a visible reference. If it’s already there I can’t fantasise about it.

Would you say your take on fashion is quite philosophical?
I think it is a bit. I think a lot about life and the way we live and make decisions. When I collaborate with an artist and architect like Philip Beesley, our sessions are more about philosophy than the practical side of what we’re going to do, and I think that’s visualised in the collections. The thing is, it’s so abstract I could never tell you exactly what that philosophy is.

A lot of your pieces have a fantasy element, almost like they’re still growing into new shapes.
I like the interaction between the three-dimensionality of the body and the three-dimensionality around the body. A couture garment has its own way of moving, and I like it to interact with the body and not just follow it. It becomes two personalities in one – the dress and the woman. Every woman has her own way of moving, and that’s something I keep in mind when I design. I don’t just design the dress but its movement.

Your SS11 dress with splashes of water sculpted around it in mid-air really nailed those ideas of space and movement. How did you make it?
It’s a type of acrylic made especially for me that stays transparent after you heat it up. You heat it with hot-air guns and then transform the shapes with metal pliers. It has its own mind and you can never have full control over it. But I really like that. You almost have a relationship with it. I’m doing a project in March with SHOWstudio where I will show how it’s made.

What attracted you to 3D printing?
Working with handcrafted techniques or a sewing machine gives you a lot of possibilities but also a lot of restrictions. 3D printing is an entirely different language. The complexity and detailing of it almost resembles old historic crafts. It lets me think in total three-dimensionality, instead of first imagining something in 3D, then drawing it on paper in 2D and then creating it for the body in 3D again. For me, it’s a dream. Printer-wise, there are limitations in terms of size and flexibility, but I’m collaborating with two companies who have managed to create a flexible 3D printer. I’ll be showing some flexible 3D prints for spring/summer 2013 couture. It’s a really big step forward, because you suddenly have actual clothes. In the future, it might even fill the gap between haute couture and ready- to-wear. Everyone can have their body scans on their computer and order any clothes exactly in their size with one push of a button.

What will that do to the designer?
It would change the way designers work, but I don’t think it would make them irrelevant. I mean, people still want to see movies. They just download them. With clothes, it’s about materiality, but that’s where the 3D printer comes in. You could just order a file and print it out. I can imagine you would have files that were hacked, so you’d get a free dress instead of buying it.

Like the fashion version of illegal downloading?
Yeah. And then you wear the dress and it falls apart after one week because there was something wrong with the file!

People tend to mention ‘futurism’ a lot in relation to your work. How do you feel about that word?
There’s some futurism in what I do. I’m super curious about everything that’s not quite possible yet, which is why I collaborate with scientists and architects. But I’m really into old, forgotten crafts techniques, which I then combine with new materials and techniques. So all the history is in there, maybe more so than the future. And you can’t build a future unless you’re aware of history.

What do you do to get away from everything?
I spend time with my boyfriend. I read a lot. And if I have some free time in another country then I like to skydive. I don’t think it’s beautiful enough here in the Netherlands, you need a clear sky. Here, it’s always overcast or raining. Skydiving is the most special feeling you can have. It’s a reset for your body and mind when you land. It’s like you’re born again and you can start over.

From TED | Richard St. John

WHIPPED INTO A FRENZY USA STYLE! WHOOP WHOOP!

"Secrets of Success" in 8 words - 3 min

Models | Stylists | Camera.. Action!

Vogue Italia September 2012

"Face the future"

Model: Carolyn Murphy

Ph: Steven Meisel

St: Karl Templer

W September 2011

"KaPow!"

Models: Sasha Pivovarova & Freja Beha Erichsen

Ph: Mario Sorrenti

St: Jane How

 V MAGAZINE #61

PHOTOGRAPHED BY MARION SORRENTI 

STYLED BY JANE HOW 

MODELS Sasha Pivovarova and Freja Beha Erichsen 

Vogue US January 2013

"Hothouse Flowers"

Models: Carolyn Murphy & Karen Elson

Ph: Steven Klein

St: Grace Coddington

Allure January 2013

"Checks and Balances"

Model: Frida Gustavsson

Ph: Norman Jean Roy

St: Siobhan Bonnouvrier

Dazed & Confused October 2012

"Temptation"Models: Joan Smalls & Sam Riley

Ph: Sean & Seng

St: Karen Langley & Robbie Spencer

Yr3 | Visual | Portfolios

Just some of the published images that you liked last Friday

As ever consider scale, placement, collage, layering, backgrounds, motifs, texture, tone of the page

Your portfolios are yours - what makes a great page?

MODA - Arthur Silver Competition and Workshops

Dear Student 

We are less than 4 months away from the deadline (17th May)for the submission of entries for the Arthur Silver Award 2013 – MoDA’s annual competition for Middlesex University Art & Design & Media students with A CASH PRIZE OF £1000 to the winner.

We are really looking forward to your submission and as we want it to be the best possible, we are running some ‘Help with applying for the award’ surgeries on campus.  They will take place in the Atrium in the Grove on Wednesdays 13th February, 20th March and 17th  April,  from 1-2pm.  Please let me know if you can make these times and whether you would prefer a different arrangement.

The time between now and May will go very quickly, so its very important that you plan and use you time wisely.  It’s equally important that If you need help with your entry then please ask me, other MoDA staff or even your tutors asap.  We are all here to help you!

In the meantime take a look at helpful Arthur Silver Award related posts on the MoDA blog http://modamuseum.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Arthur%20Silver%20Award.

Will be in touch again soon.

Many thanks.

Richard Lumb, Learning Officer
Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (MoDA) 

FASHION TEXTILES INDUSTRY VISITS

·      ANGELA CASSIDY

MONDAY FEBRUARY 4^TH 2013 @ 3PM

ANGELA has her own knit label & worked for CUSTO & TSE

·      MEERA SLEIGHT & JAMES MILLAR

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 5^TH 2013 @ 3PM

MEERA worked for LANVIN, CHLOE, ACNE JEANS, etc.

JAMES directs R-T-W team @ LIBERTY

·      CRAIG GREEN

MONDAY FEBRUARY 11^TH 2013 @ 3PM

CRAIG has his own label. (To be confirmed – Academic week)

·      MADELAINE FURNESS

THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14^TH 2013 @ 3PM-5PM

MADELAINE works for the CRAFT COUNCIL and runs ‘HOTHOUSE SCHEME’

OTHER VISITS

·      CEMENT PLEATING

TUESDAY FEBRUARY 12^TH 2013 @ 11AM (most likely in G214b)

·      GH LEATHER

MONDAY FEBRUARY 18^TH 2013 @11.20AM – G214C

·      CLAIRE MALCOM @ HARDY AMIES

WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 6^TH 2013 @ 3PM(room to be confirmed).

This event is organized by the fashion department, therefore it is on first come

Garment details from the wardrobe

Simple primary photographs documenting interesting details from key pieces that you / your peers have in the wardrobe.  Photograph your own details - print off, sketch over / collage / get to really understand the garment - this is another helpful tool in the design process so start building an encyclopedia of them.